The r/place Situation Explained

[@ChaosAhoiBand]

I find it funny that XQC tried to invade Germany but he got destroyed and his chat got invaded by the germans. A few minutes later he backed down

[@HariboWormPlsSaveMe]

Germany was really organised. They had a Discord channel, a rotating night watch and a flow chart for desicion making. there is a really good video about just Germany's r/place

[@ChaosAhoiBand]

@@HariboWormPlsSaveMe yeah i know xD

[@nydra8119]

Bruh Germany is way too organized

[@ChaosAhoiBand]

@@nydra8119 german efficiency

[@Mikey12396]

@@HariboWormPlsSaveMe I have never heard anything but organization and efficiency when it comes to the Germans lmao

[@greaterdog601]

The fact that the spanish decided to focus so hard on destroying french's art that they didn't actually build anything remotely close to it is just too funny

[@destimagartos]

and the fact they accused french of botting when Ibai promoted botting, not just a template on his stream, and when spanish were the only one banned for botting... Not building anything, botting, insulting and trying to destroy art. Spain is really sad

[@albertoguillermo1]

Who is banned for use bots? The fact is the french admited use at least 17K bot accounts when they denies it first. Spanish people never try to hide the fact that they used bots.

[@destimagartos]

@@albertoguillermo1 i want your source, cause we have ibai clip advertising for bots

[@Randy-ie6pp]

@@albertoguillermo1 they never use bot and never admit anything about bot

[@fitzwaren]

@@albertoguillermo1 Oh you mean the clips where a french streamer said "there is a reddit baggets threads with 17000 upvotes on it" and a moronic spanish girl who don't understand french start yelling "17000 BOTS ! 17000 BOTS !" ? That clip ?

[@DylansLapplandSimping]

I feel like, r/place is a representation of how our society came to be, from an unorganized mess, to small groups forming, to groups making alliances and then going to war to protect their territory from outsiders. I myself was part of the r/Arknights community which had a total of 3 territories that we defended with every inch of our pixels (981x117, 1149x103, 1648x1733) and we eventually formed an alliance with all Gacha games (United Place Gacha Alliance), Tetris, VRChat and a small Poland flag and helped eachother to defend our artworks until the very end.

[@kurukuru2518]

the Gacha community united together for the firsy time

[@takashitakedamk6020]

in the words of Raiden, We are all "BAT-SHIT INSANE!" but i love how the Gacha Alliance Came together and stayed together. Its good how we manage to get Every Games near eachother like the Azur Lane Icon, PGR, and stuff like that tbf. and thank goodness some community erased Tectone off near the Gacha Alliance

[@AnNguyen-es4kx]

Lmao what a coincidence. I was also one of the member who participated in drawing Arknights logo (specifically Amiya’s mouth). Apparently somebodg decided it woukd be fun to give her a smile

[@juicer89]

go outside

[@sample.text.]

As someone with Lebanese heritage, Lebanon maintained a little flag for the duration of r/place from the very first hour. Located at (10, 452) which is also the country's area 10,452 km² I thought that was pretty neat.

[@malcolmkyeremeh5444]

No one cares man

[@unknowncaller2597]

@@malcolmkyeremeh5444 bruh that is pretty cool

[@unityman3133]

lasted longer than Beirut Xd?

[@psycho4207]

@@malcolmkyeremeh5444 well, i care!

[@malcolmkyeremeh5444]

@@unknowncaller2597 it's just a flag bruh. I'm Ghanaian but I wouldn't find personal joy from seeing the Ghana flag there

[@bit_ronic]

honestly, props to everyone involved, even xqc, i honestly doubt place would've been as interesting without a main "villain".

[@cosmiclikesminecraft]

True but it doesn’t feel like he’s playing a villain and is just an ass given his history

[@George-wg3em]

@@cosmiclikesminecraft lol get ratiod

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

@@tanyathakur77 makes him easy to hate lol.

[@mason1807]

@@cosmiclikesminecraft and this history is?

[@uppyluna]

4chan raids against the trans flag aside it was tons of fun

[@kochan1147]

Was part of the osu! community, our admins were super organized, we were assigned pixels, and we defended hard for 4 days whilst forming alliances with smaller communities.

[@SenkoKitsune]

Having OSU ally with us, Senko-san, was such a blessing

[@shinjimirou928]

Osu friking created a NATO equivalent alliance with a lot of weeb communities, Legend of Zelda and Statwars and even the Windows Taskbar If it wasnt for the alliance we wouldnt be able to repel the streamer raids

[@cytyzent]

Also spent my weekend glued to that discord and placing my pixels for osu! and our alliances. Being allied with so many other communities and working together was such an incredibly emotional experience to feel a part of so many other wonderful people for a common goal. Sure it was just pixels, but it was what those pixels meant combined that really spoke something.

[@kdk7361]

o7

[@kochan1147]

o7 to y'all fellow osu! people

[@tdkb3395]

Joining a community to make not 1 but 2 things was a great experience and it felt great to defend and negotiate with communities beside us.

[@omgitsibrahim7712]

No body cares man

[@nono-fq1tl]

@@omgitsibrahim7712 negative for no reason

[@phantom_wave]

@@omgitsibrahim7712 we do

[@smixen]

Some communities made upwards of 6 builds

[@zamfy7141]

@@omgitsibrahim7712 why are you here then ?

[@Tiro_Chopper]

Love how France proved that with its caritative events like ZEvent (which broke the world record for funds gathered twice), it really grew a sense of coordination and engagement with and between streams over the years. Together we stand!

[@Phantomthief98]

VIVE LA FRANCE 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@MTGC888]

@@Phantomthief98 well atleast this time france did not surrender right away if someone try to fight them.

[@cocob777]

@@MTGC888 Original

[@Phantomthief98]

@@MTGC888 like the 1515 battle won by France? Like the fact that Germany (prussian at this time) surrender in 19 days? Yeah we surrender after paris was taken, but at least, we didn’t get kick out by farmers after investing millions of dollars and using war crime gas in order to win :)

[@Bebou06lola]

10 000 000 euro in 72h maybe that bots money....

[@benallmon5613]

Charlie made a great point about people hating on XQC for his shenanigans. He gave those communities a story to tell. How they banded together to fight off the "villain". And tbh, he made it fun. Seeing his void take over places only to be taken back over made for great time lapses. Proud to say I also helped Charlie claim his M0ist Esports spot for the duration of when he first got it. The whole thing was a blast. Glad I was able to be apart of it.

[@jordanblevins8377]

Exactly, can’t have a story with out conflict

[@KarmaMate]

I think what some people wanted to see even greater pieces of art, like how star wars got really big it looked cool af but xqc was stunting that, no reason to get angry at him though, its all for fun guys!

[@popweasel2883]

Xqc played the same role in Rust and GTA

[@AndalusianLuis]

“Apart” and “ a part” have opposite meanings. By saying “I was apart of it” it means that you had nothing to do with it.

[@Mertiq]

@@AndalusianLuis sory english teacher

[@thettmt3081]

French, what is your profession ? - We don't have one !!!!!! (in France we call it the "RSA power spike")

[@arthurfinidori609]

a donde esta ?

[@parham1023]

How to sumerize this years R/place: When an April fools joke turns into the next Command and Conquere: Red Alert XD

[@PennyS9000]

I'm amazed Kim Jeong Un didn't join the battle. I Swear I saw him playinh rocket league the other day.

[@DefNotAiko]

Kirov Reporting

[@toobig7150]

"hell march 2 start playing" Me: To the trenches gentlemen!

[@cytyzent]

Sitting in the r/osuplace discord during the xQc raids felt like a warroom with generals giving out orders. It was honestly one of the most fun experiences I've ever had.

[@EatMyShortsAU]

Interesting that there was no Russians? Or they were and they only hell bent on disfiguring Zalensky's face?

[@Bebou06lola]

all i remember is that the french flag was too big but when they agreed to leave the part of azbullah, spain and the americans continued to attack and ultimately destroy without ever building anything. the french defended their ground in addition to the pixel art of one pieces, OSU, reckfull, etc. which were incredible. it lacked irish but it was cool

[@t34d1um]

As a french speaker (and somebody who took part in the war) I can assure everybody that nobody was botting on the french side. We were using a Chrome extension to see an overlay to know which color went where.

[@KenLinx]

Sure, keep telling yourselves that.

[@salty_ice]

@@KenLinx while we have clips with Spanish streamers using bots 🤣🤣

[@Tyler.Steele]

Lol 1 person involved thinks they can tell other were not botting. There is literal video clips of them botting.

[@scorpixel1866]

@@Tyler.Steele Well then show us, many wrote the same line as your's yet all still have to back it up.

[@Thalasseven]

@@Tyler.Steele show us, and i will explain to you why your proof will be fake

[@eltoons]

personally xqc was a good villain and even when he claimed stuff it was taken back and more art was made on top of it, xqc has received so much hate when honestly he made r/place a lot more memorable.

[@billfred9411]

In the end that villain also added Zyzz and it was so good that other people started to protect Zyzz.

[@-ZH]

Well, people love to hate him

[@natsuno.]

@@billfred9411 Zyzz and Reckful as well

[@johngrimm2074]

Tbh, XQc isn't the "real" villain. There are tons of villains out there. The Void, the amogus, the Dalibans, the Bronies, and the French. Everybody in one way or another is a villain to another's story. It's just that so many more communities have been hit with XQC, that's why the majority don't like him. But I swear to God, there are much smaller communities that have been terrorized by other bigger factions too.

[@cappu1881]

@@billfred9411 not to mention the kobe memorial which unfortunately got overtook

[@hayateww3949]

The fact that Rubius and Ibai had their ego shattered over some pixels still makes me laugh to this day.

[@MrArgy333]

I mean I don't think that they botted like the French community

[@hayateww3949]

@@MrArgy333 French used a script that only told people what color they had to use but still required manual action, but I’ve seen numerous tweets saying that the Spanish streamers actually did use and promote a bot that placed tiles without any manual action.

[@vladzf9655]

@@hayateww3949 The French flag was definetly using bots. Why do you think the French flag was the first one to go? Because the bots couldn't chose another color so they deleted it themselves.

[@hayateww3949]

@@vladzf9655 we had a grand total of 500k viewers (maybe even more I didn’t check) people just tried to keep the flag and everything alive without realizing you only could place white tiles

[@rield56]

@@vladzf9655 The flag was first to go because over 700k people were placing pixels on an area of 120k pixels, it was the most active place of the canvas in the last day and pretty much the only active one in the last moments. So of course it went white way quicker than anything else. French streamers were able to white a huge "French" on the canvas, way bigger than the flag, using only white tiles when they realised what was happening, in a couple minutes. At the end of the day there is no, and never will be any, proof (and i mean proof, not allegations) the french botted unlike for say the spanish streamers or the OSU community.

[@Sabs-_-]

saying France uses bots is literally the best compliment you can give, the organisation was so good that people unironically thought France was using bots lol. And yes, Reddit is kinda unknown in France not a lot of French uses it which can explain why so many new accounts were created hahaha i even made an account for this event, was really fun! so many good art was made by everyone it was amazing :D

[@cramoxis748]

Nous sommes légions

[@rameensyed3837]

Your flag went from being normal to looking the same way it does when in war with any other country

[@Seracs]

@@rameensyed3837 Ratio

[@bhekfkvvkelflclvl]

@@rameensyed3837 not funny

[@leeyon8057]

@@rameensyed3837 0 history knowledge be like :

[@TheNeon-rh4kk]

R/place Where the French Revolution started again to push back the Spanish Inquisition.

[@Ms666slayer]

It was interesting seeing my community of Hololive allying with Germany and Belgium, it was kinda bizzarre that a community of just anime weebs and simps got to ally 2 big countries, that also helped us survive and fight against one of the first XQC attacks, also how we all defende agaousn the big red among us dick that apeared on the canvas, it was somethig amazing those 4 days were super fun, and i hope it returns.

[@alexhndr]

Definitely the biggest peak r/Hololive has ever reached Allied with not one, but TWO country Oh, and don't forget the intervention of r/Osuplace as well This is a coalition we never saw coming

[@Harlizarrd]

I was helping MCDM (dnd channel) who ended up allying with the Green Bay Packers. We spent most of our pixels defending them from the Vikings, hilariously.

[@medicfdumbo]

LoveLive teamed up with Argentina. Weird to see.

[@hmr0470]

@@Harlizarrd ironic for a dnd community to fight against the "vikings", what such plot lmao

[@stafvanlerberghe9212]

As a belgian, it is very heartwarming to witness someone call Belgium a big country

[@dalkent3417]

That was a really fun event. Seeing some Spanish streamers crying about French using bots when there's absolutely no proof of it was hilarious. If we add the fact French showed how their overlay worked to Ibai, and he answered with "it's fine by me, it's not a bot", it makes it even more hilarious. But is still made accusation of cheating after all, and he himself used a bot and promoted it on his stream, so shamefull. The French streaming community is holding so much events that other communities not used to doing it can't keep up with a well organised group. There were no cheating, French streaming community just dedicated their heart to the cause.

[@juanmagonzalezfernandez7845]

Ñ>France

[@dalkent3417]

@@juanmagonzalezfernandez7845 If you want bro, that's why the French flag is still present

[@scorpixel1866]

@@juanmagonzalezfernandez7845 Donde esta?

[@TiTee]

Que triste ser francés

[@thibistharkuk2929]

@@TiTee Si si si mucho chorizo

[@DexM47]

Just to clarify: the French were NOT using bots. They were using an overlay to help people place the right color in the right pixel to help draw nicely.

[@ladyprussia3618]

Seeing the little hermit craft area become kermit craft, and stay that way because the community liked it just made me so happy

[@wixardo]

The Outer Wilds animated timeloop in there was honestly the coolest most creative thing in my opinion, definitely worth looking up if you're an Outer Wilds fan or just curious

[@Sukesa92]

Yeah I just found out yesterday. The gif is so satisfying. also look up foxhole war map moving between blue led and green led battlefield

[@wixardo]

@@Sukesa92 The Foxhole map was my second favorite thing for sure, it was literally a game within the place, so cool

[@AyimeAnime]

Props to xQc, Mizkif, Osu Communitny, the Turks, French and Spanish, because of them, this whole war became so entertaining.

[@John__Wish]

Not props to those spanish mfs

[@gabrielc7861]

Don't forget foxhole!

[@thefirstsin]

pvc MEGALUL EVERYTHING

[@OoOoOo-we3dn]

Hehe Germany won

[@tomto6532]

@@OoOoOo-we3dn and we managed to build the canadian maple leaf on the german flag😂

[@Neelo194]

To anyone wondering if French people used bots : no. I was part of the thing and truth is one of us quickly developped a chrome extension to place an overlay over the canvas indicating to every single person where to place pixels. It was NOT anything near bots or automatization of some sort. As to why so many account were new It's because many people joined reddit for the occasion. On Kameto's stream, we reached 408,707 viewers. Nothing broke french twitter as much as this or brought us together as much since 2018 Football Worldcup. I am strongly against cheating in general and would have told if any suspicious script was used by the community to my knowledge. I still want to congratulate the spanish reddit community for having built in peace their own flag and stuff, but really despise their twitch community that crossed the line many time and just made it personal.

[@xt1222]

You can't say "nothing brought us together as much since 2018" when there is a Zevent every year

[@walmartsinatraa2395]

pizza yummy

[@Squidifyy]

cap

[@Neelo194]

@@Squidifyy Explain then, I'd be more than happy to share if you have proof

[@yann7764]

And the ironic part is that the spanish streamers actually ended up using a bot for the BTS logo, you can even see on the heatmap how completely red it is compared to the rest.

[@ksweew7476]

I can't believe how people still not understand how 1M pixels at your disposal doesn't mean you'r going to instantly win especially while you guys can actually go watch the streams of the french and see their POV ... I encourage people to search for themselves nowadays there are subtitles you can check the french streams to understand what happend.

[@athenos1]

I love the fact that your media talk about the french bots accusations (where france never used bot) But nobody talks about Spain using bots where we saw in live Rubius and Ibai use their automatic pixels script and some of spanish getting banned France did won the war They did build art, in final Spain did build nothing If you want to talk about countries please get more informed (and yes nobody was using reddit before in france so we all got new account)

[@DefNotAiko]

French did use bots. No wonder they and Osu! are thr ones who first got erased

[@mandrilconcamisa5401]

You didnt mess up only with Spanish art, but also Latin American art, not like a Euro colonialist boy would know what or where Latin America is anyways So, in dumb boy terms, the pixelation wasnt only from a single country but like half a continent lmao plus France did actually use bots so idk wtf youre on

[@chatolo1]

Dude just because u dint use bots now one else didn't

[@Seracs]

@@DefNotAiko We are better than you bro , please take the L and moove on :(

[@kagou6247]

​@@mandrilconcamisa5401 It's been disproven again and again, so stop being a sheep.

[@Sye772]

France against the world, we were so organized that people thought we had bots, what we did is creating waves and called them by the seasons names, spring, summer, fall, and winter that's how we defended so many attackers

[@yakub888]

Yeah no one cares tho

[@Sye772]

@@yakub888

[@benyseus6325]

Été, automne, hiver, printemps

[@mateoparborell9347]

Bot detected

[@u.v9055]

Honestly i'm French and I can tell you that the "organisation" was nothing compared to Germany or Ozu! :)

[@pathogens7596]

i love that as a runescape player, us nerds have back 2 back owned the top left corner. we have botting at a crazy rate. we have people who are pixel perfect every .6 seconds, we have dudes who just have played the game for 20 years, since children, and love it and we still put “connection lost” on the top left. it’s hilarious social commentary to me, and it’s hilarious that it’s a few hundred pixels and every few hundred have their own story.

[@sooch13]

The funniest part for me was xqc literally throwing the fortnite tournament just so he could go to war lmao

[@natsuno.]

not really, I watched the entire stream and he only focused on r/place between games

[@Drakonus_]

@@natsuno. That's not true, he threw 2 games because he was too focused on r/place. I watched it live.

[@natsuno.]

@@Drakonus_ sorry I watched the Fortnite Monday live, not the one with mendo and another since he F'd and the vod was gone and I couldn't find it

[@Bam_bone]

R/place needs to be an every 2 or 3 year thing. Give some times for communities and events to change

[@Paracetamol-gaming]

I disagree. r/place should happen every 5 years because it should be special and it better shows how much internet culture has changed

[@steven.2602]

r/place should be every 5 years because I don't think that I'd be able to handle another 4 days of r/place politics for good 2-3 years.

[@funky_galaxy]

Tbh, I personally think it would be cooler if it happened every year. I missed out on this because of college (in other words, no time to keep defending any territory) and it kinda sucks that I'll be 23 the next time this happens :/ Plus, it'll be a pretty cool archival of internet trends and communities along the years!

[@captainchris817]

Yeah, every 4 years sounds cool to me, it already appears like that’s the pattern it’ll go in anyway, see you in 2026 for the next time it happens XD

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

@@captainchris817 Ayy cya

[@HonArap]

People really thought the white tiles help finding out who was botting but the case of France was that they were attacked in mass and couldn't defend (because had only white tiles), that's why it became white so fast.

[@TRAUMARRANT]

don't bother, theyre too dumb, Ibai didn't even verify his account so he had to wait 20 minutes to place a tile. As a french streamer said "he is dumb as a brick"

[@giancarlo9866]

Sureeeeee

[@TRAUMARRANT]

@@giancarlo9866 there are some clips where Ibai told his viewers to attack France's flag when you could only place white tiles.

[@hebja6982]

@@giancarlo9866 I just wonder what you possibly think of french people ? That 600k french are lying when they say they are not botting ? Aren't you being a flat earther ?

[@olimpef478]

I'm french and I swear to God we were not voting we had section and generals for this we were prepared and ready.

[@hxxro9950]

Bro XQC’s 100k viewers vs Everyone on rplace was nuts.

[@Patnugs]

he peaked at 280k during the last day of r/place

[@sup4ok453]

France was the biggest by far Kameto 400k viewer at peak and we dont have latin america like Spanish

[@Prynce971]

French didnt bot, like all my friend i just créated a reddit account for the évent without rename it

[@irov5884]

Same, but I guess we're bots

[@jazzycat8917]

French and Spanish streamers yelling at each other in heavily accented English is incredible. English: Bringing People Together ✌😊🙏

[@kayzenl7911]

You can’t talk with Spanish people as they only understand Spanish.

[@dego9246]

@@kayzenl7911 how come? I do understand your comment in english, just as I understand your other hateful and xenophobic ones. Now, do you understand how dumb your statements are or is your head too small to wrap that concept around?

[@andres-js7mc]

@@kayzenl7911 portuguese and italian can understand spanish

[@arthurfinidori609]

This come from E-Sport. Ibai the biggest spanish streamer have a LOL team, and Kameto to with KCorp in France. And there is a huge rivality and hate betwen fans

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

LOL FAX

[@kimerlend3093]

When mizkif started "shaking" while pouring that water is the moment i have laughed the hardest this year. The timing just makes it comedy gold to me!

[@th3lumenux250]

This was ridiculously fun; my favorite part was forming crazy alliances with totally unrelated fandoms, and working as one team to help each other out. At the end we had over 1000 members and over 50 different communities! Central Alliance (formerly SXSE) will always hold a special place with me

[@alexdavis665]

France was absolutely not botted, the top french streamer Kamet0 had over 500k viewers at peak.

[@alexhndr]

> There is war raging everywhere in the canvas r/Amogus: *Sneaki Breeki, time to Amogus everything*

[@johngrimm2074]

Genshin>Genshit>Gayshit>SexShrek is literally the best community driven change, along with Bananada.

[@jadelamrani4509]

You didn't mention that at 8:36 the french tried to write "FRANCE" with the white tiles in the middle and the spanish turned it into "FAIL"

[@sup4ok453]

And it ended up turning into "FREE" cquse french was defending against final Spanish attack Beautiful end

[@justaguy9671]

at the end in the middle also some guys wanted to write DONT but the germans turned it into DÖNER the german word for kebab lol

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

"Mom, I'm going to be fighting in WWIII!" "Okay."

[@stratfor140]

Okay, the accusation of french Bots, and the arguments made for it specifically, is ridiculous. Time to debunk the main ones: "It was impossible for France to defend against the Spanish and Americans whose numbers are way superior": Well the thing is, 200k people attacking all at once specific parts of a banner of 120k pixels, is surpringly not very effective. The French had an hell of an organization and cohesion between streamers and communities; by splitting the task force between the 4 seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter), so they always had a reserve of pixels for defending immediately if necessary, and with the use of an Overlay, a visual aid which allows to see which pixels to place where in order to recreate images and artworks (but still needed to manually place the pixel, so it's not a bot). The French were just better organized, strength in number not always comes out on top in these situations, especially in sieges like here. "France has to have bots, because a lot of the names placing pixels are randomly generated ones": On the contrary of the US and the other countries, France don't really use Reddit as primary social network, they use more Twitter or Discord for exemple, so many of them didn't have a reddit account until the r/place; to repeat what I said earlier, French streamers have a great cohesion between themselves and their communities, so when they call for everyone to take part in it, many followed and created an account just for the occasion using Gmail, and when reddit create a new account, it generates a random name, which the French didn't bother changing. There, problem solved. "If French didn't have Bots, then why their flag disappeared faster than anyone else's creations ?": It's even simpler, at the time of the end of the r/place, the French flag was in constant attacks by the Spanish and US communities, so when reddit changed the color of pixel to only white, the French couldn't defend anymore and quickly realized that that was the end of r/place; meanwhile, the US and the Spanish communities thought that was only a glitch, and jumped on the occasion to obliterate the French flag, only realizing afterwards that this "glitch" wasn't one, but the end of the r/place. There, the force in numbers worked wonders for making the flag disappear in minutes, no need for bots on this one. "But French is using bots, even some streamers admitted it on their live, or others accused them of doing so" All that is well and good, but that's not proof, the clips used as "proof" of that were quickly debunked as a misinterpretation on the translator's part or an outright lie. You can check the streams of the French if you want, but there's 0 indication anywhere on their stream that they used bots, even the story of the script overlay that we talked about earlier. On the other hand, the french have apparently some proof that the Spanish streamers were using bot who's much more substantiated using clips of streamers and screenshots. If you want to accuse the French streamers of botting, provide some actual proofs to go along with your accusation (after verifying that your proof is valid, and not just misinterpretations to use at your advantage of course), otherwise, that's just a statement and not a fact. I'm not saying that anyone in the community didn't use bots; there will always be people who'll use bots, regardless of the community. But during the r/place, the French Streamers never encouraged anyone in their community to bot, and were even against it; and it's not by using the arguments above that you'll be able to prove the contrary.

[@PurrkourCat]

Wow this guy is creating so much stuff that is actually pretty popular!

[@Benfica1002]

thank you for this. I was so confused what was going on.

[@elythebeast3312]

French soldier from winter squad hier! Thank you for not saying that we are bots! it's had to see our hard work tarnished by somes haters. but i think that people dont realise that when our General sayed that he have a whole country to defend he was speaking truth! EVRY big and small french streamer started to stream and protect the flag, i personnaly created a reddit account just to be able to help. Maybe for Spanish and Americans it was just a twitch community fight, but for France, it was our national pride, because they attacked our flag. Btw it was fun, but i'm glad it's over, i needed some time to sleep XD

[@sugarcubexd8882]

People getting mad at the German over the Belgian flag expanding was hilarious to me

[@Simmi0312]

people love getting mad about germany for ages .. even without any reasons.. when germany was around people drew over the flag -> germany woke up -> did claim their flag back -> people get mad at germany for overpainting :D while ignoring that those people overpainted it the first time. "flag across the whole map" .. the Belgium Flag did count as German Flag by not Europeans. Holland at the top with the same got ignored. people also complained that germany did german art on their german flag .. the Discord was booming with polls about everything. they had alliances with france ( like the france Place guys not the french streaming guys), with belgium, even with some streamers. a Vtuber and Myth both "attacked" germany & at the end they got a part of it. germany did help canada with their leaf and the flag... since everyone attacked their leaf. no one did attack the leaf on the german flag. People said it was mocking canada which is wasnt since it was all planed with canada. huge communities like Holo, F1, Star Wars , Superstonk all had allies with Germany and no problem. there were like 50+ more pictures blanned for the flag but time did run out at the end...

[@magic.wolfie]

As someone who was part of two groups in building things it was such a fun experience. A bit frustrating at some points when people destroyed it, but it was still awesome.

[@magic.wolfie]

Also thank you for calling one of the ones I helped with your favourite lmao

[@ProductionsLukas]

French didn't bot but spanishbros certainly do cope

[@psychedelic1114]

I really love the pixel esports very competitive and exiting placing pixels every hour or so. Keep covering this esports!

[@leeyon8057]

France literally fought usa and spain at the same time and won, so easy.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

US was kinda busy just trying not to get erased lol

[@bnbmike4731]

"Won" I wouldn't say won, there art at the end was destroyed/not complete. Also, they were botting hard.

[@HayatoStarGod]

People who say France was botting have the same IQ as Flat Earthers

[@rubenbarranco9169]

With bots

[@deltareivax]

@@bnbmike4731 did you know anything about what french streams do ? In 10years the french streaming community was growing everytime because of french streamers who made a lot of featuring. And with the Zevent, the organisation to raid a streamer evolved. SO no we weren't botting. We were too much organised for them. We all fought with a very good organisation. Go watch the replay of Kameto, Zerator, Domingo etc. And go learn about what french streamers do for the french community.

[@blackkofi]

I love it! Everything looked amazing and just watching streamers talk about helping each other, taking over places and wars. Fucking awesome

[@hein_ji]

Dude, I was defending the Indian flag and and artworks from 2 more communities. Denmark flag was right next to ours and people from our community straight up expanded the flag on it, deleting it. They went to the point of half-deleting Lego until some people from our comm with actual sense decided to back track the flag and help rebuild the denmark flag. It was a fun few days haha

[@radddish]

i cant help but feel this sense of achievement after being involved in some great arts on that canvas! rip Miura sensei reckH

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

Oof

[@dr.j.redacted3679]

you guys forgot about the admin that placed tiles without cooldown

[@captaineflowchapka5535]

the anti nsfw (or inapropriate i don't know spec) team ?

[@jackhoward8]

fucking chtorrr man

[@tpgslmth4252]

@@captaineflowchapka5535 Those were the big rectangles, there's also videos of admins placing down individual tiles without cooldown. Idk to what end,, but it definitely happened.

[@SeahorseGames]

5:18 PagMan I see my name! Great video dude

[@clements3715]

XQC's face was very funny when he said to Kameto that the Louvre pyramid would never be up again and while arguing the french recreated the pyramid XD

[@conhosh1812]

XQC: " Lets start chaos" The asian animation community: "How about we reverse what your doing"

[@JayJay-nv2fs]

It's pretty stupid that xqc got death threats. I get that some hold the art closer to the their heart than I do, representation, nationalism, blahblah what have you...but it's just pixels. Like damn, get mad that's fine. But death threats? That's different.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

That dumb shit happens for literally anything that becomes large and in any way divisive in nature in the public eye. Sadly... its a common dark side of the streaming world we dont see. The same happens for politicians, and "celebrities" of any sort. Louis Rossmann posted a video recently about the fight for right to repair where a politician shot down the shit over a death threat he got.. Refused to even acknowledge the benefits at all, Flat out refused. Because he felt the right to repair community "deserved" it.... for his death threats... likely sent from some Cheeto dust chested teenager in his moms basement.

[@E_D___]

Some people are idiots, sending death threats to streamers about anything they don't like.

[@a.w_.]

Nationalism is cringe

[@toobig7150]

Sending death threats in the internet hold as much value as a 7YO telling you you are a poop head. Im not saying that its a right thing to say, or that its a good thing to say, all im saying its that Death Threads on twitter/Facebook/whatever hold ALMOST no value. Similar thing with IPS " i have your IP!" (so what?) On other of ideas, people get really riled up for things they like or hate, like have you seen Twitter any time Japan does anything? (or anyone really?) BUT I am no redditor but at the end of the day i think the huge mayority just had a laught at it.

[@norHa.]

Lmao "death threats", it's just pixels on your screen, just turn it off.

[@e_x_c_u_b_i_t_o_r_ejiysb7169]

Damn I remember, only sleeping 3 hours just to help keep the real Eren's face and Floch from being vandalized. The worst 3 days I experienced but completely worth it, cause finally we get to tatake for 10 years atleast.

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

TATAKAE!

[@jimsonngangom4610]

Mizkif calling his mom is hilarious.

[@Aselectir]

The most powerful group was amogus, they were literally EVERYWHERE

[@phoenixflamegames1]

I was honestly surprised how big the dutch flag was and the amount of stuff on it.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Thanks for this resume. I happened to randomly access Redditch both during the canvas and wallstreet bets crazy times but never had the time to delve into it.

[@WesleyParksTTV]

I thought the event would end when everyone agreed to one picture , I guess I was right

[@pressfinchat]

r/place needs to be an Internet Historian episode.

[@0Ploxx]

he probably will

[@leopolddesmadryl9428]

just to let you know french didnt use bots and the reason grance was wiped first was not because they botted but because everyone attacked them

[@ItsWhatever736]

How do you know they didn't?

[@herculet]

the thing with "everyone attacked them" is that while it's true, it doesn't make sense that the whole flag turns white in random tiles. if it turned white radially then of course it's because of the coordinated attack (close to perfect Gaussian distribution), but the real reason people noticed you can only put white in the first place is because they saw what was going on in the france territory. i was in xqc/ibai/hasan/rubius/miz stream back then and they noticed the white surge first before asking the viewers to attack. so the conclusion is, it is very likely the area was scripted. Same thing happened with osu but it was wayyy slower so i dont think they were scripting, it probably was the fast attackers

[@yassinet1700]

@@ItsWhatever736 how do you know they did ? =)

[@xt1222]

@@herculet obvious troll is obvious

[@ndriod]

Also I mean a 3rd of the flag is already white so it's easier to fill it to be fully white

[@CthulhuComics]

I wasn't very active on place, but I continuously placed a slightly off colour orange pixel on the Canadian Flag, purely for fun

[@benyseus6325]

No maple syrup for you

[@smug880]

i mean i get it that it's "only pixels" but when you spend much effort and time to said pixel, i think it's reasonable for them to be mad about it when they get griefed.

[@ahmadmarwanhadid9179]

The main villain is the one who sent death threats over a literal pixel.

[@gelogelopopo9106]

French are able to raise millions for charity on twitch, wake up guys

[@leeyon8057]

10 milions

[@jackharan3791]

And someone like DrLupo or Jacksepticeye can do similar numbers on their own, lol

[@oanhienlong7264]

@@jackharan3791 but they don't, lol

[@gelogelopopo9106]

5 years 20 million, still they are the only twitch community doinh this

[@ThyXatu]

As a former Old School Runescape fanatic I found myself defending the three dots at the end of the “connection lost attempting to reestablish . . .”

[@BrenTOR]

Don't destroy my pixels!!!

[@mirael1248]

My man just explains the whole r/place situation and gets everyone rickrolled

[@reiito8727]

LOL I don't understand how some people can say france botted when you literally have the heatmap that prove that France didn't use bot 7:15 . If it was botted the flacg would be red constantly like the moment spain streamers started to bot over the french flag with the BTS logo.

[@adambamf9365]

r/new zealand stood strong the entire time we allied with Thailand

[@Zgegoz]

There is still an aftermath going on between French and Spanish. Thxfully you did not cover the big L Hispanic community took on .

[@rubenbarranco9169]

The BTS flag yea

[@thoma_sita]

And now r/place is back once again, filled with bots and flags.

[@arivanhouten6343]

We, the osu! community, actually had a great time and a lot of fun. We had pretty good coordination and without any significant botting, we were able to defend ourselves (we also built our logo 40 minutes in). The devs of the team actually developed a nice overlay and in the end we split up the pixel on our logo for each person.

[@I_nvxz]

Pokemon GO sounds so fun after this explanation...

[@battlerog_fr]

7:02 well actualy some of the french streamer encouraged peaple to create new account's , but that was targeting the part of the french streaming comunity that didn't had a account alredy created at the time only to my understanding as a frenchman miself , this is why there was a big group of fresh account's defending the country

[@slimyduck2140]

yes lot of my friends who didn't even knew whet reddit created account just for that (I'm french)

[@steffaneumel9299]

btw, Gemany helped france a lot with the defending. there was a little cooperation

[@Rescel1]

Everyone: The French are under Attack Germans: Mein Handtuch liegt schon da!!! The Noway4U Community: We made a Chinchilla UwU

[@lexaparone3843]

I would've wanted someone to capture the full canvas and make it the internet flag, until r/place come back and make new art

[@rekkriendo]

How do you forget to mention the entire osu! event and xqc literally in a discord call with BTMC

[@hellogoodbye1441]

Other people: watching pixel art video to build cool builds Me: reading art of war

[@YamadaRyo918]

This just says when people have the same enemy unity can be achieved

[@cattailarts2527]

Aliens watching us humans start a war over a pixil: "nahh i'm out of here"

[@baulzzzzzzz2278]

Place is a very good way to simply create an interesting storyline about nothing it’s like the warriors every community has their own territory with their weird graffiti and friends just keeping shit pushing 😂😂

[@warbacca1017]

I love how some of the art from the first r/place came back

[@uneverjack158]

The Foxhole community did so well, and so many more learned not to mess with gamers who spend 12 hours a day fighting over inches of land every day. Shoutout to all of you fellow foxhole players! Also Collies are the best and the wardens are stinky.

[@lunaticgmd6427]

Osu loved you guys as allies!

[@justv7536]

Me placing one pixel: I'm doing my part!

[@SleightCreative]

I for one worked with the r/waifubartending subreddit to make sure Jill Valentine got her rightful well... place :P Also credit to all the other subs who, intead of warring with r/waifubartending just added their subs art to her wall. It was wholseome af Reddit needs to do this every year no lie.

[@aleblasco39]

From a VA-11 HALL-A fan, thank you for your efforts!

[@chickenwings2352]

One piece X France, we homies had each other.

[@salvetl4358]

oh no someone put their pixel on top of mine

[@CAETT0]

6:57 not only the french, the german place community helped the french defending their flag.

[@Phish620]

The project is a perfect distillation of the whole of humanity. "We can do really dope things if we work together." YEP :smile:

[@ikn0waplace]

I’m so glad that I got to take part in this legendary internet war. I was part of transplace, placepride, the tiny penguins, and part of the group that made the tiny jacksepticeye logo that barely survived to the end. It was fun while it lasted

[@captainfaya]

Why dont you even mention the name of the French army ? Kameto gathered 350k ppl on his stream and organised a lots of communities to défend the french flag

[@Kio_vidz]

r/place feels more like: 1939 alternative history pixels.